Shanghaied
About Shanghaied
The owner of the S.S. Vaquero (Wesley Ruggles) and the captain plan to sink the ship with dynamite and collect the insurance. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter (Edna Purviance), is offered $3 to help knock out three sailors. After he is paid, he is hit with the same mallet and thrown aboard. The daughter stows away. In a gale Charlie finds her below, sees the fuse, and throws the dynamite over the side into the conspirators' boat. Her father pulls them off the ship, then Charlie pretends to jump and kicks the owner into the water.
Cast & crew
More about Shanghaied
Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed, and edited. Jess Robbins produced. Harry Ensign photographed. Essanay released it on 4 October 1915.
Themes
Making
Chaplin made it at Essanay, with Ensign on the camera and the shipboard gags built around a gale and a galley.
Look
Harry Ensign photographed the deck, galley, and boat scenes.
Music
Silent, with English titles.
Preservation
Prints are on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Bud Jamison, Billy Armstrong, Paddy McGuire, Leo White, and John Rand are among the crew and the shanghaied sailors.
- The daughter leaves a note that she is hiding on the Vaquero, which is what sends her father after the ship in a motorboat.
- Charlie's fee for delivering three sailors is $3, and he is paid before he is shanghaied himself.
- A print is on the Internet Archive and on Wikimedia Commons.
Scenes
- Charlie clubs three sailors for $3 and is then clubbed himself.
- He throws the lit dynamite into the boat of the men who meant to sink the ship.
Also available
- Internet Archive (CC_1915_10_04_CharlieShanghaied)
- Wikimedia Commons (Shanghaied (Charlie Chaplin, 1915).webm)
